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Two stars is probably one star more than this fanfic deserves. It succeeds in simultaneously featuring a plot that is almost non-existing, yet at the same time confusing. Some evildoer from another dimension steals a thread of reality from our own. It is not exactly certain why they do that or what the consequences are,or what that even means, but there you go. To top it all off, we're again witnessing an overuse of time travelling to solve a problem. Yet, when an important character suffers, it does not occur to anyone to go back in time and prevent it. Oh sure we can go back in time to steal an artifact to alter the course of history, but not to save someone.The character of Petra Morganstern, or is it Morgan Morganstern now, has totally jumped the shark, probably in the previous book already, but here she's even more ridiculous with her unmatched power and connection to James Potter and so forth.Even the Merlin-centric thread that was the staple of the previous two books is apparently gone now. So in the end, the only thing that maybe makes this worth one and a half star is the author's decent worldbuilding centered on the American magic academy Alma Aleron (you see, James and some of his friends and family now return the favor and go study abroad for a year). Although there is too much of such exposition and not enough of the plot. It feels like half the book is a treatise on an American Quidditch-like game called Clutchcudgel, which apparently features even more ridiculous rules and is, despite the fact that so much time is devoted to it, never properly explained.Looks like a good time for me to stop reading fan fiction for a while.
Best of the series so far. Some pars a bit overdone, and completely unneeded (such as the time when the students went to visit the Shackamaxon. The chapter reaching their was a long read, and in the end we learned nothing of it, because next thing they all were back at the school. I still hope that the author of this will rethink the fact that all grades of the school have lessons together. It would be rather intelligent first years or daft seventh years students if they all take classes together.It was a good read however, and it could almost be a book written by J. K. Rowling herself.
excellent book, it was interesting during all pages, but I didn't liked end.
Interesting plot twists.
Good